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Former Supreme Court chief justice arrested in power abuse scandal
Kim expresses 'great satisfaction' after receiving letter from Trump: KCNA
S. Korea's chief nuclear envoy sees 'rapid progress' for future
Adoptee deported by US sues S. Korea, agency
[Graphic News] London retains tech startup crown
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[Anne O. Krueger] Trump’s brain drain
[Emily de La Bruyere and Nathan Picarsic] China wants to dominate internet
[Lionel Laurent] Make no mistake, Davos, fat cat backlash is coming
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Plenty of Uber drivers love their jobs too

Jan 23, 2019 Social affairs

Adoptee deported by US sues S. Korea, agency

Adam Crapser lives in limbo, a stranger in South Korea, the country of his birth. Forcibly separated from his wife, children and friends in America, he is isolated by language and culture, left alone to navigate this sprawling city he's been expelled to four decades after being sent to adoptive parents in Michigan at age 3. Crapser was abused and abandoned by two different sets of adoptive parents in the United States then deported after run-ins with the law because none of his guardians filed c

Lawmaker denies all allegations

Rep. Sohn Hye-won again denied all allegations brought against her in a press conference in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, Wednesday. Sohn is alleged to have used her influence as lawmaker to intervene in the designation of a dilapidated area in the city as a cultural asset. She is also accused of purchasing properties under the names of her family members, including a niece, in the area to profit from the real estate price increase expected after the area became protected for its cultural value.

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Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Korea eyes artificial rain in fine dust fight

Officials skeptical artificial rain can significantly reduce fine dust levels

Today
Social affairs
Ex-prosecutor in 'Me Too' case gets 2 years in jail

A former ranking prosecutor was sentenced to two years in jail Wednesday for unfairly disadvantaging his female junior colleague after she raised sexual misconduct allegations against him.The Seoul Central District Court handed down the guilty verdict to Ahn Tae-geun, who last held his job as chief of criminal affairs at the Ministry of Justice. Ahn was immediately taken into custody after the court ruling. Ahn Tae-geun (Yonhap)Ahn, 53, was indicted in April last year for abusing his authority

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Appeals court upholds another wartime forced labor victim's compensation claim

A Seoul appellate court on Wednesday upheld another compensation claim by an elderly South Korean victim of Japan's wartime forced labor, ordering Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to pay her 100 million won ($88,754). The appeals division of the Seoul Central District Court made the ruling in favor of Lee Choon-myeon, 88, who filed litigation accusing the Japanese company of forcing her to toil without pay in poor working conditions during World War II. Lee Choon-myeon (Yonhap)Wednesday's court ruling add

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
Seoulites help crack down on over 45,000 illegal prostitution ads

A Seoul citizen watchdog organization reported over 50,000 illegal online prostitution advertisements in 2018, helping police crack down on illegal establishments and adult entertainment establishments. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday, the watchdog organization reported 52,677 sex trafficking advertisements online and smartphone applications. Advertisements for dating for pay and on-site massages, widely perceived as a means of prostitution, made up the majority 82.7

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Social affairs
Men taking paternity leave rise 46.7 percent on-year in 2018

The number of male employees taking paternity leave in Korea rose 46.7 percent on-year in 2018 amid a shift in social perception and workplace culture, the government said Wednesday.A total of 17,662 male workers went on paternity leave last year, up 46.7 percent from 12,042 people in 2017, according to data from the Ministry of Employment and Labor.“The rise in paternity leave is due to changes in the social atmosphere, alongside various policies such as increased income replacement ratio durin

Today
Social affairs
Court to decide on arrest warrant for disgraced ex-Supreme Court chief

A Seoul court will hold a hearing Wednesday to decide whether to issue an arrest warrant for former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae over a massive power abuse scandal involving the country's top court.Yang, 71, is due to appear at the Seoul Central District Court for a 10:30 a.m. hearing. Prosecutors filed for his arrest warrant last Friday.The former top court chief from 2011-2017 stands accused of using or seeking to use trials as political leverage to lobby the office of then-Presid

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
[News Focus] Sejong City strives to provide offices for lawmakers, president

SEJONG -- Two ministries, the Ministry of Interior and Safety and Ministry of Science and ICT, will join the Government Complex Sejong this year via relocation of their offices in Seoul and Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, to Sejong.While more than 2,000 civil servants from the two ministries will move to temporary buildings around the Complex Sejong by September 2019, new building construction is scheduled for late 2021.With their relocation, the number of ministries headquartered in the administra

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
Man arrested for working with fake pharmacist license

A man who worked at eight pharmacies over a four-month period with a fake pharmacist license has been arrested for violating pharmaceutical laws and fabricating official documents, according to police Monday.The 31-year-old is reported to have worked as a short-term pharmacist dispensing medicine at eight pharmacies located in Ulsan, Busan and South Gyeongsang Province from August to November last year. (Yonhap)The offender reportedly pretended to be pharmacist with knowledge he gleaned from wo

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
Bad welding 27 years ago caused Ilsan hot water pipe rupture

The pipeline rupture on Dec. 4, 2018 that killed one person turned out to be the result of weak welding when the pipeline was first installed in 1991, according to police Tuesday.“We have received results from the National Forensic Service that say the underground pipe burst due to weak welding done 27 years ago when it was first installed. Bearing water pressure for many years, it seems a piece of welding fell off,” said an official from Ilsan Dongbu Police, adding that police are tracking down

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Human rights watchdog to set up independent monitoring system to root out sexual violence in sports community

Report says Kim Mi-seung quit archery after experiencing molestation, having complaints disregarded

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
2018 Lotto sales mark 15-year high

Total Lotto sales in Korea last year of 3.9 trillion won ($3.45 billion) set a 15-year record, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance on Tuesday.As one ticket costs 1,000 won, the sales volume last year from January to December equals some 3.9 billion games. The year’s sales topped 3.8 billion won in 2003 and sales volume of 3.7 billion games in 2017. (MBC)The 2018 records translate into each person in South Korea buying 76.8 games, spending 76,800 won on average.Half of last year’s s

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
S. Korea, China hold talks on fine dust amid dispute

South Korea and China are holding a series of talks in Seoul to tackle the fine dust problem amid mounting public concerns over increasingly toxic levels of fine and ultrafine dust believed to originate mostly from China. 　Director-generals from Seoul’s Ministry of Environment and Beijing’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment held their third meeting on fine dust in Seoul on Tuesday, the same day as the first meeting of an operating committee within the South Korea-China Environmental Cooperatio

Jan 23, 2019
Social affairs
Over 80 pct of foreigners have positive national image of Korea: poll

More than eight out of 10 foreigners have a positive national image of South Korea, a survey released by the government showed Tuesday.According to an online survey of 8,000 people in 16 countries, including South Korea, 80.3 percent of foreign respondents evaluated South Korea's national image positively.Notably, 34.6 percent expressed a "very positive" impression of the nation's image, the survey showed. It was jointly conducted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and its affiliate

Jan 22, 2019
Social affairs

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